Dinosawer Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 A consolidation of info on how to get to the core, for people who are stuck trying to figure it out. The Way Right along the wall around the core you can find a hidden mass system with therein 8 asteroid stations in a circle, numbered from I to VIII. That's related to the 8 Xsoltan Artifacts you can find (legendary upgrades numbered the same, from I to VIII). When you have (and equip?) all 8 of them a jumpgate to the core opens. Things leading to those artifacts can be found in sectors with a hidden mass signature (equip a radar upgrade). The Artifacts (minor spoilers) -I is received by finishing the Project Exodus questline -II is researched at the research station -III is received by killing Pirate Captain Swoks -IV is sold by the travelling merchant -V is received by the artifact delivery questline -VI is received by killing the AI -VII is received by the MAD science thing -VIII is received by finishing the smuggler questline Detailed guide (major spoilers) I Project Exodus. The start beacons can be found in hidden mass systems at a distance of more than 200 from the core. They're easy to spot on the map - they blink. The beacons are numbered - find beacons until you have X and Y of the same number. Go to that location (can be found via mission menu-> show on map. You'll find a beacon in that sector with new coordinates. Follow them. Repeat that until you've reached the final sector (somewhere near the edge of the map). Talk to the communication beacon until it says it'll drop some Xsotan technology. Look around for the glowy purple thingy, and go pick it up. II Find a research station. Give it three legendary system upgrades, at most one of which can be a Xsoltan Artifact. Research that and you'll get the Artifact. III killing Pirate Captain Swoks (distance to core between 380 and 415) IV sold by the travelling equipent merchant for 3 million creds V Follow the Artifact delivery questline to a beacon. Activate it while having one of the legendary upgrades equipped. The upgrade is dropped when you killed the Four. VI killing the AI (distance to core between 295 and 315) VII destroying 4 MAD science energy research satellites until the boss shows up and killing him. (distance to core between 150 and 240) VIII finishing the smugglers quest and killing Botan. Start by talking to a smuggler near a smuggler post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I'm pretty sure you're right. Other bosses you may be missing: Boss Swoks iii, The AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 Swoks is the pirate guy (forgot his name :-X ), AI is listed, which means there's still missing one (unless you can buy 2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I'd suggest marking this thread with [spoilers] at the front of the title rather than hiding everything within the tag. We should mark down what numbers are found in what locations or drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 True. Done. I think Swoks was III and Botan VIII, and MAD science was definitely VII, and I think I saw IV for sale. Dunno about the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Do all upgrades give plus five arbitrary turrets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 The 5 (of three types) I've found so far all do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I've found at least four types that all do that as well. This leads me to another issue, building a ship large enough for 8 upgrades. You should throw a spoiler tag in the initial post that holds upgrade locations by number. Spoiler: I - unknown II - unknown III - Boss Swoks Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 Done! Well, the battlecruiser I designed (but can't afford) has 7, so I could attach a giant computer core block for crossing the boundary :V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Same. I think i got up to 7. Only ogonite I've gathered so far is from a scrapyard, assumedly it's mined near the center. Avorion too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 I did a tiny bit of "data mining" and found where to find all the upgrades. Added to the OP. Spoilers etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted November 3, 2016 Boxelware Team Share Posted November 3, 2016 You could add this stuff you find out here to the wiki, that would be pretty cool, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 I'll see what I can do when I have some time. (have some experience with game wikis :) ) Seems the current wiki is kind of horribly outdated indeed :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted November 3, 2016 Boxelware Team Share Posted November 3, 2016 Very much so. It'd be great if it got some love. We might be migrating to gamepedia in the near future, but they told us that we can migrate the wiki to their site, so no content will be lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 I'm all for discovering more about the game, but i am horrid at writing wiki pages. I'm gonna leave this one to Dino, but I'd be happy to point out good resource threads and once we have a good semblance of a wiki, any missing gaps that the forum has filled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 BTW, koonshi, I think it'd be better if the 8 upgrades are actually called "Xsotan Artifact I" etc - until I went digging through the lua I had no clue these things were the artifacts I was supposed to deliver to the artifact mission, which means I'd miss the dialogue with the 4 which is clearly meant to hint you toward the way to get to the core. There's not really any way in the game to know except guessing - you don't get them from the Xsotan, and they're just called a number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 I actually prefer it this way - the game is more of a puzzle to be unraveled rather than something that holds your hand along the way. By the way, i hit project exodus. Found no powerups, but there were system blocks of huge ships full of resources. 10 million xanion in a single block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted November 8, 2016 Boxelware Team Share Posted November 8, 2016 I highly suggest you go back (before you're too far away). There's a beacon there (you'll have to search with TAB, it doesn't blink yet, sorry :/). Talk to the beacon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 I actually prefer it this way - the game is more of a puzzle to be unraveled rather than something that holds your hand along the way. By the way, i hit project exodus. Found no powerups, but there were system blocks of huge ships full of resources. 10 million xanion in a single block. I prefer it this way too, I'm just saying a piece of the puzzle is missing. It makes sense that, if a mission asks you to bring Xsotan Artifacts somewhere, something in the game gives you an indication of what a Xsotan artifact actually is :P I thought it was some kind of rare cargo drop you could only find in the core or something. Haven't managed to find Exodus yet, ran into an empty system again, so I think I'll wait for a patch :) Only that one and the merchant one to go. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Clarifying that I cannot in fact mix three xsotan artifacts to get the research station one, it has to be one xsotan and two non-xsotan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 11, 2016 Author Share Posted November 11, 2016 Yup - one Xsotan and two non-xsotan, or 3 non-xsotan. All legendary. I presume to prevent us from just farming Swoks at a point where he's easy as pie to kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 More than likely it's got to do with the beacon which spits out legendary powerups for days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 :o I should really finish project Exodus :V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Can i get more detail on finding thel AI? i am warping round 0, 300 in hopes of finding it. would it show up on radar? mass or energy? does it exist in specific sectors or will it spawn on a chance in warp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Follow up, where is the artifact delivery questline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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